Thursday, April 30, 2009

At IF we have lots of different kinds of dropouts, each type is made out 3 different materials: Steel, Stainless Steel and Titanium. Today we're going to take a look at a few of them, up close and personal style.

Below are pictured the steel disc dropouts. They are covered in a scale that is a result of the heat treatment process:

58 degree steel road bike dropouts (we use different angle dropouts to match up to the angles of the seatstays):

Steel track drops (with dried coffee stains):

Mitered titanium track drops:

Titanium road dropouts used on bikes with carbon monostays:

Steel slider dropouts:

Finally, titanium slider dropouts:

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